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Who governs, who benefits, and which terms remain open?
Compare any two entries. Their differences are editorial descriptions, not distances on a common scale.
Life and institutions
Material provision need not depend on owning scarce productive assets. Political disputes shift toward allocation, participation and how different ways of life share common resources.
People delegate difficult administrative work while retaining usable ways to change the mandate and run alternatives. Deliberation, review and maintaining those alternatives consume resources.
Practical authority
The source premise does not settle the final governing institution.
Human public institutions retain practical final authority.
Benefits and costs
A material floor independent of private productive wealth. Collective allocation can constrain private projects; disagreements over contribution persist.
Delegation with effective public contestability. Oversight and alternative capacity slow decisions and require effort.
Practical human governing authorityDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether humans retain practical final governing authority.
Humans retain practical final authority
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate explicitly retains practical human final authority.
Revisable governing mandatesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
People can effectively revise governing mandates
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate can genuinely be revised, beyond a paper right.
A practical right to leave
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
Several self-governing communities
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
A guaranteed material floorDifferent or incomplete terms
Material provision is guaranteed broadly
Linked source premise. The linked Egalitarian Utopia premise expressly includes guaranteed income.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
Private ownership of productive resourcesDifferent or incomplete terms
Production is organized without private ownership
Linked source premise. The linked premise abolishes property; productive ownership is included in that abolition.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans in the continuing society.
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society retains humans as citizens and decision-makers.
Others’ choice to transform themselves
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
Standing for artificial persons
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
Enforced limits on selected capabilitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Capability restrictions depend on the governing settlement; no uniform ceiling or absence of a ceiling is guaranteed.
Visible exercise of governing powerDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The project leaves the governing arrangement, including the visibility of its power, open.
People know who exercises governing power
Additional project hypothetical. The authored administrative mandate is public.
Practical independence from a technical providerDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Common provisioning does not determine whether infrastructure has practical alternatives.
Communities can operate without one indispensable provider
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society can maintain and operate practical alternatives to its AI administration.
Open questions
Practical human control, exit and rights for artificial persons.
Exit rights, distribution and the status of artificial administrators.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Egalitarian Utopia sources or Constitutional Delegation sources.